Starbucks Used Social Media to Get One Million to Stores in One Day
Starbucks’ Vice President of Brand, Content and Online, Chris Bruzzo, is on stage at the Mashable Media Summit today and he just revealed that last year’s Free Pastry Day was a whopping success,...
View ArticleRecording Industry Wants $1 Billion From LimeWire
After winning a ruling against peer-to-peer file-sharing service LimeWire last month, the recording industry has told a federal judge it aims to recoup “over a billion dollars” from the defendant as...
View ArticleHTC EVO 4G Is Completely Sold Out
Were you still deciding whether or not to pick up that shiny new HTC EVO 4G smartphone? You may be out of luck for some time, as Boy Genius reports that Sprint’s new flagship Android handset is...
View ArticleRed Cross and URDB Break Record for Most SMS Donations in One Room
The Universal Record Database — a rad online resource that allows the Average Joe to make and break a myriad of records online — succeeded in breaking the record for most online donations made by text...
View ArticleREVEALED: Improv Everywhere Was Behind “Tourist Lane” Stunt
Remember that awesome “Tourist Lane” photo — which depicted a New York City street with walking lanes for both tourists and New Yorkers — that was making its way around the web last month? Well,...
View ArticleThe Onion to Launch News Show… From the Future [VIDEO]
If real-time news isn’t good enough for ya, The Onion has the remedy: Future: News From The Year 2137, a new video project the satirical media outlet unveiled today at Mashable’s Media Summit.The...
View ArticleBehance Brings Creative Meritocracy to the Design World
At the Mashable Media Summit today, Scott Belsky CEO and Founder of Behance talked about the growth of the Behance Network and some plans for the future.As a company, Behance has a number of products...
View ArticleCrowdrise: Edward Norton Unveils DIY Fundraising Site
Actor Edward Norton (Fight Club and American History X) spoke today at the Mashable Media Summit to announce the launch of Crowdrise, a social good website that gives individuals and organizations the...
View ArticleHOW TO: Install Safari Extensions
Yesterday Apple unveiled Safari 5, which now includes extensions.Unfortunately, extensions are still in their nascent form and you’d have to be somewhat of a sleuth to even track down the...
View ArticleHow Dana White Built a UFC Empire with Social Media
When the media refused to cover the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the league cultivated its own massive following through grassroots social media rapport. Now the UFC is the fastest growing sport in...
View ArticleTwitter to Change Links: They Won’t Count Against the 140 Character Limit
In an effort to remove the obscurity of shortened links and to prevent malware and phishing attacks, Twitter has begun the rollout t.co, its official URL shortener, along with some major changes to...
View ArticleMashable Media Summit Keynote with Pete Cashmore and Dr. Sanjay Gupta [VIDEO]
Today, Mashable founder and CEO Pete Cashmore took the stage at Mashable’s Media Summit to be interviewed by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, renowned neurosurgeon and CNN’s general medial correspondent. They were...
View ArticleGoogle Rolls Out Its New and Improved Search Index
Google has announced that it has completed the rollout of Google Caffeine, the new and improved web indexing system that now powers the world’s largest search engine.In August of last year, it was...
View ArticleiPhone App Offers Weather-Specific Style Suggestions
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, see here. The series is made...
View ArticleConsumers Duped By Fake Bank in New IE8 Ad [VIDEO]
Last night, Microsoft kicked off a new television ad campaign focusing on the safety of its Internet Explorer 8 browser. The spot — which can be viewed above — shows real New Yorkers getting scammed...
View ArticleIs Facebook Getting Bigger Than Google? [STATS]
According to the analysts at Hitwise, social networks in general are more popular than search engines in some parts of the world.In fact, networks such as Facebook have been pushing hard against the...
View ArticleMoonit.com Plays Astrological Matchmaker on Facebook
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The...
View ArticleGmail Gets a New and Improved Chat Window
Chatting in Gmail is simple enough: click on a contact, and a chat window will open in the lower right corner of the screen. Finding video, group and voice chat was a bit harder to find, but now...
View ArticleGoogle Maps Navigation Now Works in Canada and Most of Europe
In October 2009, Google released Google Maps Navigation for Android devices, a free turn-by-turn navigation system, based on Google Maps. At first, the service was limited to the U.S. Recently it was...
View ArticleHack Enables 720p Video Recording on Nexus One
One of the advantages of iPhone 4 over most Android-based competitors is 720p video recording. Now an older but still very popular Android smartphone, Google’s Nexus One, gets that feature — albeit by...
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